Weekly Solar PV Installations (16 – 22th April 2012)

April 25th, 2012by Sara Pernas

As every week, the Department of Energy and Climate Change publishes the weekly statistics of solar PV installations all over the UK. Around 50 installations more than the week ending 15th April took place, which means that, right now, there are a total of 312,537 solar PV installations in the UK . As a result, these solar panels installations are producing more than 1 GW of energy (1,067,903 kW), that equals that when operating at peak performance, these panels could be powering up to 220,550 homes1.

Installations between 16th April 2012 and 22nd April 2012

Tariff bands

Number of PV's installed

Capacity installed (KW)

0-4kW

805

2,283kW

4-10kW

12

79kW

10-50kW

0

236

Four months ago in retrospect, the total number of installations done was higher than in the current days. The quantity of solar PV installations in the week ending in the 1st April – when the new Feed-in Tariffs took effect – were 8,961, where the great majority, 8,539, were installations from 0kW to 4kW, that is, the most affected tariff band once the the new Feed-in Tariffs legislation started.

Comparison Chart showing Monthly Solar PV Installations from January to April 2012 in the UK

New Feed-in Tariffs

From 1st April to 1st July 2012, the solar PV tariffs for systems under 4kW will be 21p/kWh, plus new requirement to show property has an EPC Band D or above. If the property is not an EPC band D on the date the application for FITs is made, then the rate will be 9p/kWh.

In addition, a new proposal of new tariffs from 1st July 2012 onwards (16.5p/kWh – 13.6p/kWh (tbc), depending on the total installed capacity between 3rd March and 30th April 2012) has been made and is still under consultation.